Land of the Garuda - Day 5

Finally! A day when we slept in late. After a leisurely wake and wash up (with Fenny’s mother bringing oatmeal breakfast again :D) we took a short walk to another of Fenny’s uncle house somewhere opposite the apartment, to visit Fenny’s 94 years old grandmum. One of Fenny’s cousin Nico was home (oh..he looked so jappy, and small boy kind of cute for a 20 year old) and Fenny asked if he wants to jalan-jalan with us. He said ok and we had ourselves a free ride to shopping :p

So he took us in his Rush (accoding to Fenny, everbody in the household has their own car =.=”) back to Fenny’s place for lunch, and then to another relative’s place, where we picked up another auntie and cousin to go "soh-soh" (in hokkien. The older folks converse in hokkien most of the time though the younger generation would speak in Bahasa Indonesian). Along the way, they were telling anecdotes of all the relatives in the family (like how Nico had his first driving experience when he was 13 (with parents’ blessing can you imagine that) and you can only see the car and not him). We ended up at Grand Indonesia, the latest shopping mall and walked around for 1 plus hour, before we had to leave cos Fenny had a dinner appointment at Plaza Senayan which was another shopping belt area and we had to beat the jam. Nico dropped us at Senayan City which was a good shopping plaza if only we had more time! But it was good enough as I had my Krispy Kreme (yes! Krispy Kreme) and Starbucks :p Senayan City had lots and lots of eating places on the basement too, which was all we checked out before we had to cross over to Senayan Plaza.

Dinner with was Fenny’s friend Edmund and his friend, where there were a lot of bankers’ talk about how gloomy their industry was and going to be :/ After dinner, we hitched a ride from Edmund to go back to the apartment; however Edmund decided to have his driver (I am starting to think that having drivers was the normal thing in Jkt already..) bring us around to see the establishments around Monas (day 1 when I had a view from the top, now I can see them upfront albeit from the car). Along the way we also passed by this new mall call Fx which had all the entertainment and food outlet. There was supposedly a level inside which was all made of glass (meaning tha t you better skip that level if you are wearing dress or skirt..) and also a slide on level 7 (or was it a 7 level slide??) that you can just take and slide down for the fun of it. Hmmm… Anyway Edmund was alsp pointing out all the good food places (half of which are the roadside kind). And there was really a lot of them!

There were just so many malls and food in Jakarta! Not enough time..And we haven’t even had the chance to go to the one just next to our apartment..and spa! Have to go spa!